"Bridesmaids'' picked up Best Picture momentum with a nomination Monday from the Producers Guild of America Awards.

“Bridesmaids” picked up Best Picture momentum with a nomination Monday from the Producers Guild of America Awards. Also nominated for the Screen Actor’s Guild award for ensemble (SAG’s equivalent of best picture), “Bridesmaids” may be the one to watch for when Oscar nominations are announced on Jan. 24, though it’s historically extremely difficult for a comedy to actually win as Best Picture.

Also getting a boost from the PGA noms is the critically divisive “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” which was snubed by SAG. The other PGA nominees are nominal frontrunners “The Artist” and “Bridesmaids,” as well as usual suspects “The Help,” “Hugo,” “The Ides of March,” “Midnight in Paris,” “Moneyball” and “War Horse.”

Most prominent among the PGA snubs were “The Tree of Life” and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” — both previously snubbed by the Golden Globes — as well as “Drive” and “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.”

Last year, PGA nominations matched Oscar’s Best Picture nods nine for ten, with the academy swapping out the PGA’s choice of “The Town” with “Winter’s Bone.”

This year, the academy has said that, depending upon the vote tallies, there will be anywhere between five and ten Best Picture nominees. Most experts think there will be eight at most. PGA elected to stay with the 10-picture field it adopted to match the Oscars over the last two years.

Paramount dominated PGA’s weak field of animated feature nominees as U.S. distributor of “Rango” and “The Adventures of Tintin,” as well as DreamWorks Animation’s “Kung Fu Panda 2” and “Puss in Boots.” Pixar’s abysmal “Cars 2,” distributed by Disney, rounds out the field.